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Corn futures steadied ahead of a key monthly US report on supply and demand, while concerns about weather risks eased.

One notable group has been absent from the 2026 stock rally: the American tech giants that have charged a nearly four-year bull run.

One notable group has been absent from the 2026 stock rally: the American tech giants that have charged a nearly four-year bull run.

For every investor who wants more Elon Musk, Wall Street increasingly has an ETF. Now it’s planning some for investors who want less.

Retail fervor over leveraged ETFs in South Korea has grown so intense that the products, together with the two chipmaker stocks they track, now make up more than 70% of trading value in the $4.3 trillion market.

Jonathan Ferro, Lisa Abramowicz and Annmarie Hordern speak daily with leaders and decision makers from Wall Street to Washington and beyond. No other program better positions investors and executives for the trading day. (Source: Bloomberg)

That leveraged single-stock exchange-traded funds will eventually maul the retail investors who love them is, by now, close to consensus.

Indonesia’s efforts to reassure global investors suffered another setback after S&P Dow Jones Indices signaled the country could eventually lose its emerging-market status if concerns over its equities market persist.

India’s rally in equities had been broadening, luring foreign flows

For years, the Magnificent Seven tech giants commanded investors’ attention, dominating the S&P 500 Index and determining which way the overall stock market was headed. Those days are over. While the technology-heavy Nasdaq 100 Index is up 16% in 2026 and the S&P 500 has climbed 10%, an index of the